Baba Gurpal Singh
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Baba Gurpal Singh (born 17 June 1993)[1] is a Pakistani politician and social activist who has been serving as a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly since 20 July 2025.[2] He is the first member of the Pakistani Sikh community to be elected to the provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[3]
Gurpal Singh is the son of Baba Sujan Singh, and belongs to a Sikh family hailing from Bara, Khyber District, which was forced to relocate to mohalla Jugan Shah in Peshawar after the 2008–09 surge in militancy.[4] He contested on the ticket of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) on the minority seat in the 2024 Pakistani general election and was elected unopposed.[3] He is also the representative of the Sikh community belonging to the merged tribal areas.[4][5]